Re: NT Dual Boot with Windows 98

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From: David Erickson
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:00

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That is something i didn't think of doing.  Make a small 5mb FAT16 partition
for the boot loader and then you can make win98 FAT32, and NT NTFS.  But
then you absolutely can't exchange files even one way hehe.

Dave Erickson

Andreas Hofmann wrote in message <35C8A2C1.D6D7DFBF@usa.net>...
>Mike Kooiker wrote:
>
>> I have
>> tried many things. One was to put a parititon magic boot partition in the
>> IDE and use that to select WIN 98 and NT. It would select 98 fine but
when i
>> selected NT I just got a blinking cursor. I have also tried system
>> commmander (on the IDE) which will work one cycle through then when I
>> reboot, I get the "NONE FOUND [ACTIVE PARTITION] ON HDD" error again.
>
>Have you selected the primary partition of NT into the boot manager? If you
>select the NTFS partition this is not the place where the boot files are
>located. It should work if you select the (may be small) FAT boot partition
into
>the boot managers menu.
>
>Andreas
>
>

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From: "David Erickson" <ericksond@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: NT Dual Boot with Windows 98
Date: 1998/08/11
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